Sökning: "orientalism"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 28 avhandlingar innehållade ordet orientalism.

1. 16. Orientalisk dans i Stockholm : Femininiteter, möjligheter och begränsningar

   Författare :Karin Högström; Lena Gerholm; Helena Wulff; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Middle Eastern dance; Oriental dance; belly dance; Egyptian dance; femininity; orientalism; authenticity; respectability; Ethnology; Etnologi; Ethnology; etnologi;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the dissertation is to describe and analyze the practice and meaning of Middle Eastern dance through the study of a number of performers in Stockholm. In particular, this study emphasises the ways in which the performers seek, create and defend values such as femininity, authenticity, empowerment and respectability in and through their dancing. LÄS MER

3. 17. As a Fire Beneath the Ashes : The Quest for Chinese Wisdom within Occultism, 1850-1949

   Författare :Johan Nilsson; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; western esotericism; Chinese religion; occultism; Daoism; Orientalism; Construction of tradition; Albert de Pouvourville; Aleister Crowley; René Guénon; Rudolf Steiner; sinology; textual bias; textualism;

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4. 18. Images of an Empire : Chinese Geography Textbooks of the Early 20th Century

   Författare :Mats Norvenius; Marja Kaikkonen; Marianne Bastid-Bruguière; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; China; modern schools; geography textbooks; national identity; Chinese minorities; Meiji Japan; nationalism; Sinocentrism; Orientalism; social Darwinism; geographical determinism; racism; militarism; constitutional monarchism; Sinology; sinologi;

   Sammanfattning : In 1901 the Qing regime, in power 1644-1911, took wide-ranging measures to reform the Chinese Empire. Fundamental changes were carried out within the field of education, resulting in the completion of China’s first modern educational system in 1904. LÄS MER

5. 19. Bilder av Mittens rike. Kontinuitet och förändring i svenska resenärers Kinaskildringar 1749-1912 : Images of the Middle Kingdom. Continuity and Change in Swedish Travelers' Accounts of China, 1749-1912

   Författare :Kenneth Nyberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; images of China; national images; orientalism; imagology; travel accounts; ethnocentrism; Chinoiserie; Sino-Swedish relations; Sweden and China;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyze the images of China in Swedish travelers’ published accounts – traditional travelogues as well as diaries, diplomatic reports, letters, and geographical handbooks – between 1749 and 1912. The main problem of the study is the question of continuity and change in these images, which are seen as the result of an encounter between preconceived notions and personal experience. LÄS MER

7. 20. The Threatened Paradise : Tourism on a Greek Island

   Författare :Peter Smekal; Jan Ovesen; Julie Scott; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; Greece; Kárpathos; tourism; anti-tourism; tourist typologies; repeat vacationing; tour guides; host-guest relations; festivals; guidebooks; tourist media; Orientalism; lifestyles; social distinctions; Romanticism; nostalgia; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology; kulturantropologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is about attitudes and practices of foreign tourists in Ólymbos, a village in the north of the Greek island of Kárpathos. Based upon several periods of fieldwork from 1999 to 2005, it focuses on the discomfort with tourism and the tourist role which is shared by many holidaymakers, and which also can be found in various types of representations of the area. LÄS MER